A HISTORY OF THE BORGIAS bestowing his duchy, his principalities, and his counties on his heir, the Marquess Don Carlos of Lombay; distributing his estates and wealth among his children. He laid aside his sword, which, according to the fashion of the courtiers of Caesar Carlos V, he rode cock-horse, (so to speak,) as it hung between his legs. He had his hair cut short, and the tonsure shaved on his head. He changed his ducal robes for the shabby ill-fitting black habit of a Jesuit, On Whit Saturday he was ordained priest; and the Duke of Gandia disappeared in Padre Francisco de Borja. In his after life, he never would allow of any allusion to his former style, except when he chanced to hear of the re- fusal by the Company of Jesus to admit a would-be but unsuitable novice, when he would say, "Now I thank God fr6m the bottom of my heart for having made me a duke; for assuredly there was nothing else about me which could have induced the superiors to accept me": an opinion which shews that Padre Francisco's extremely poor opinion of himself betrayed him into exaggeration—a little human touch which brings him nearer to human understanding. He said his first mass privately in the chapel of the castle of Loyola, on the first of August 1551, the Festival of St Peter's Chains; and gave Holy Communion to his second son, Don Juan de Borja, who, having found it hard to leave his father, was losing his young heart to Dona Lorenza Onaz de Loyola, heiress of the Senor Don Bel- trano de Loyola. Padre Francisco's second mass was a public function. All the people round about persisted in nicknaming him "Lo Santo Duque," The Holy Duke. The Lord Julius P.P. Ill granted a plenary indulgence to all who should assist at this mass, on the usual conditions of confession and communion. To satisfy the multitude the mass was to be said in the city of Vergara: but no church would hold the crowd, and the altar was erected in a field by the her- mitage of Santa Ana. It began at nine o'clock in the morn-